Job Description

Job no: 590683
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Duty Station: Garowe
Level: NO-3
Location: Somalia
Categories: Operations

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, Results.

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Purpose of the job

As a Strategic Business Partner, the incumbent will be accountable for strategic operations functions (valuing people, valuing money, valuing risk management, valuing systems and structures and valuing partners), facilitate change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts. Operations Manager will accomplish this by:

1. Facilitating services in the functional areas of operations support: budget, financial management and reporting, facilities management, administration, supply and logistics management, information and communications technology and human resources;
2. Supporting the line manager to implement career development, opportunities for staff;
3. Acting as a member of the Country Management Teams, representing the organizational risks, governance systems and policies, and promoting results-based management.
4. Understanding business needs for the office, to anticipate challenges, propose viable/creative solutions aimed at value for money.
5. Providing key contribution to CPD, CPMP, AMP and support to Results Based Management and implementation using Value for Money criteria.
6. Promoting the fundamentals of ICT management, information security and controls;
7. Supporting supply and logistics strategies and interventions to meet programmatic needs while ensuring Value for Money (VfM), including procurement of fit for purpose products and services, and providing advisory support to governments, national systems and partners on supply chain management;
8. Supporting the country office during external and internal audit reviews including HACT financial assurance activities and responding to audit observations and monitoring implementation of recommendations.
9. Providing regular feedback on risks and achievements of operations functions in the office;
10. Leading on facility management with a specific focus on inclusive accessibility, eco sustainability and common premises;
11. Monitoring business transactions processed by GSSC from a perspective of Efficiency, Performance, Risk Management and Fraud prevention
12. Supporting the management of PSFR operations and promoting efficiency across systems and processes, where applicable.

The Operations Specialist will be entrusted with the following five pillars, the core focus of all operations functions: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, Valuing Partners.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:   JD- Operations Specialist (NOC) Fixed Term -final.docx

Experiences and Qualifications

Skills Required

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